Tip 1: Make it pretty :)

I obviously am no health or fitness expert. I have, however, been a yo-yo dieter since I was in junior high school. With that being said, I am trying some things differently this time around in hopes that these will be permanent changes to my life. I will share some of those here with you all (well, the 4 of you that are following me, lol) in hopes they may help you, too.

Tip 1: Make it pretty :)

I have always read to use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate when you prepare a meal for yourself. So today when I went to make lunch, instead of just making a sandwich and putting it on a paper towel and taking the crackers to the living room and mindlessly eating them, I took out a salad plate and made my lunch "pretty". I dug out a little glass dessert dish and cut up an banana and put it in there. It may sound silly, but it looked pretty and made me feel better about what I was eating. Not only were my portions calculated and tracked in my Weight Watchers online tracker, but I sat down at the table (gasp!) with a bottle of water (double gasp!) and ate my pretty lunch. Before I would have just sat in the living room watching tv or the kids play and probably wouldn't even remembered what I ate. Small steps......